ABSTRACT
Once there was a convict who, if I said he had robbed a thousandtimes, I’d be saying too small a number. People like to say that everythief and whore has religion and performs their devotions. And this thief’s devotion was not to eat meat or drink milk on Holy Thursday out of respect for the Lord. It so happened one time, as things do, that he gulped down a drop of milk on a Holy Thursday. Immediately he had scruples because he had drunk some milk and ran to confess and receive absolution for this great sin. Well, the priest said to him, “This is new! . . . You have scruples about this drop of milk, and you don’t have any in the least when you rob, even if you rob God!” Told by Rosa Brusca at Palermo.
